Useful Resources

• Tom Flemming's Bookmarks (formerly "Health Care Information Resources")

Associations for Health Information and Libraries

(Permission to reproduce this list has been granted by Benoit Thirion at EAHIL)

• Africa
  • Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa
• Belgium
  • ABD-BVD for Association Belge de Documentation-Belgische Vereniging voor Documentatie
• Canada
  • Canadian Health Libraries Association
• Denmark
  • The Danish Union of Librarians (Bibliotekarforbundet - BF). Medical subgroup
• European
  • EAHIL: European Association for Health Information and Libraries
  • ELISAD European Association of Libraries and Information Specialists on Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Finland
  • BIBLIOTHECARII MEDICINAE FENNIAE (BMF) (Finnish Medical Library Association)
• Germany
  • AGMB Arbeitgemeinschaft fuer medizinisches Bibliothekswesen
• Hungary
  • Hungarian Medical Library Association - MOKSZ
• International
  • IFLA. Health and Biosciences Libraries Section
  • International Medical Informatics Association
• Ireland
  • HSLG Health Sciences Library Group
• Italy
  • GIDIF-RBM (Gruppo Italiano Documentalisti dell'Industria Farmaceutica e degli Istituti di Ricerca Biomedica)
  • Italian BDS (Health Librarians and Documentalists): the Associations of Librarians and Documentalists of the National Health Service
• Netherlands
  • CAMBI Convent van Academische Medische Bibliotheken In NederlandI
  • NVB section Biomedical Information (BMI)
• Norway 
  • Norwegian Library Association. Section for Medicine and Health Sciences (SMH)
• Nordic
  • The Nordic Association for Medical and Health Information
• Poland 
  • Polish Librarians Association  (Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich)
• Portugal
  • APDIS - Associação Portuguesa de Documentação e Informação de Saúde
• Sweden
  • Svensk Biblioteksförenings: Medicin och vård (Group for Medizin and Nursing)
• Switzerland
  • Association des Bibliothèques et Bibliothécaires Suisses (Verband der Bibliotheken und der Bibliothekarinnen / Bibliothekare der Schweiz) (Associazione delle Biblioteche e delle Bibliotecarie e dei Bibliotecari Svizzeri Associaziun da Bibliotecas, da Bibliotecaras e Bibliotecaris da la Svizra)
• United Kingdom
  • Animal Health Information Specialists (AHIS)
  • Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • The Association of ICT Professionals in Health and Social Care
  • British Medical Informatics Society
  • Consumer Heath Information Consortium
  • Consortium of Health Independent Libraries in London
  • Community Care Network (CCN)
  • Groups for Health Information Professionals
  • Health Libraries & Information Confederation
  • "Health Libraries Group, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
  • Information for the Management of Healthcare
  • Libraries for Nursing
  • Medical Information Working Party
  • NHS Library and Knowledge Development Network (LKDN)
  • Patient Information Forum
  • SCONUL Health Services Group
  • Scottish Health Information Network
  • University Health Sciences Librarians
  • University Medical School Librarians Group (UMSLG)
• USA
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Medical Library Association

Community

• Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre
• The Cochrane Library
• Ontario Health Libraries Assocation

Advocacy

• Concept Development Study for a National Network of Health Libraries for Canada (1998)
• OCLC Advocacy and Awareness

Promotion

• Librarians - the most effective search engines. Comments from the President of Johns Hopkins.
• Chirs Olson's Marketing Treasures

Fun Stuff

• Library - The Musical! - requires QuickTime or Windows Media Player
• Library Career Romances - Love "Hospital Librarian?", then check out "The Girl on the Bookmobile!"
• Library Romance Project - submit YOUR story!